Which problem is costing you the most traffic?
A list of problems is not a plan. This reads your own search data to find the pages that actually earn clicks, checks each one, and orders the faults by the traffic sitting on them. The page earning forty clicks a month with a broken canonical comes first, however interesting the others look.
Reads your connected search data and fetches your highest-traffic pages. Nothing is stored.
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How this check works
Shipwork reads which pages earned clicks in the last 28 days from your own connected search property, fetches the highest-traffic ones, and checks each for the things that quietly remove a page from search: an error status, a noindex, a canonical pointing elsewhere, a missing title. The findings are then ordered by the clicks each page earns.
Questions
- How is this different from the fix priorities list?
- That one ranks opportunity, the traffic a page might win. This ranks exposure, the traffic a page already has and might lose. Both are useful and they rarely agree, which is the point of having both.
- Why only the highest-traffic pages?
- Because a fault on a page nobody visits costs nothing. The check fetches the pages that earn the most clicks, where a problem is worth fixing today.
- Do I need Search Console connected?
- Yes. Without it there is no way to know which pages earn traffic, and the whole ordering depends on that number.